Fw: Re: Implemented OPLOCK for FreeBsd

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Sep 7 20:01:23 GMT 2001


On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > We have a good framework for arbitrary event handling in FreeBSD.
> > we don't want to implement a half dead (signals suck) implementation
> > in adition to it.
> 
> Are you doing POSIX or not ? If not, please let me know so I
> know where to point Samba users on *BSD's if it breaks.... :-) :-).

I didn't say it would be non posix, just that generally, signals suck..
:-)

> 
> We already have to caution OpenBSD users against the use of tdb 
> mmaps due to there being no coherent mmap/read/write cache (that's
> not solely an OpenBSD problem as HPUX suffers from the same problem).
> 
> Jeremy.
> 





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